Innovation cooperative systems and structural change: An evolutionary analysis of Anecoop and Mondragon cases

Bono, Juan Ramón Gallego; Ávila, Rafael Chaves

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“…The citrus sector in Valencia, Spain, used to be characterized by the speculative behavior of individual sellers who sold the highest quality on the spot market and the lowest quality to the government or the cooperative [55]. In response, citrus marketing cooperatives formed a second-tier cooperative, Anecoop, to increase the collective export capacity and mitigate the negative effect of speculative behavior by obliging member cooperatives to sell through the collective channel.…”

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An Exploratory Study of Cooperative Survival: Strategic Adaptation to External Developments

Grashuis

2018

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Farmer cooperatives have been portrayed in the literature as flawed and complex organizations with ambiguous objectives. However, research on the observed survival of farmer cooperatives in spite of their weaknesses and limitations is scarce, in part because academic attention to cooperative performance has been static and introspective. Using evidence collected from case studies and print media publications, this paper contributes to the literature with a qualitative study of farmer cooperatives which spurred survival and longevity by means of strategic adaptation in response to four current developments in the external environment: industry consolidation, consumer segmentation, price volatility, and policy change. The qualitative study concludes farmer cooperatives in general respond to such developments by means of organizational growth. Common strategies are vertical integration, geographic expansion, and portfolio diversification. While survival and longevity are promoted in theory, strategic adaptation also often facilitates the pursuit of investor-oriented as opposed to user-oriented objectives. In some scenarios, member ownership and control may become burdensome to the business and prompt conversion to another structure if further adaptation to internal and external developments is unsuccessful. More research is therefore needed to explore the dynamic and variable impact of strategy on cooperative survival.

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An Exploratory Study of Cooperative Survival: Strategic Adaptation to External Developments

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2018

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“…Faced with the globalisation challenge, scientific literature has shown that along with private and public ways of modernising clusters, there is a third way that is represented by cooperative innovation clusters (Gallego & Chaves, 2015, Bretos, D ıaz-Foncea, & Marcuello, 2018. These cooperative clusters also present a great potential to generate social innovations, which underlie and contribute to the technological innovation processes (Gallego & Chaves, 2016). However, there is a lack of studies that address the capacity of these cooperative clusters to transform the territories in which they operate, making them more dynamic and competitive.…”

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“…In the protectionist Spain of the 50 s and 60 s, Basque industrial and cooperative companies proliferated with relative ease. But maintaining this impetus over time required the introduction of key organisational and SIs (Gallego & Chaves, 2016).…”

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“…From this perspective, it will be leadership and the proactive capacity to anticipate future needs instead of a reactive attitude, which presides over the launching of SIs and, in reality, the SI system defined by the set of formal and informal institutions that make up what Irizar and MacLeod (2010) have called the "inter-business cooperation framework". So Arizmendiarrieta will act as cooperative shumpeterian entrepreneur (Gallego & Chaves, 2016) along with some of its founders, promoting socio-organisational innovations coherent with their vision which will go on creating a system as an emerging reality.…”

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How to boost clusters and regional change through cooperative social innovation

Bono

Ávila

2019

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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The aim of this paper is to illustrate how social innovation is promoted and spread by cooperative clusters in order to develop regional change. This paper focuses on the main drivers of the spreading and exaptation processes of social innovation. The cooperative cluster model, the exaptation concept, the top-down approach, the meso-institutions concept and the meso-level perspective are used to capture the strategic approach of spreading social innovation. The study analyses two successful clusters: Mondragon, made up of industrial SMEs, and Anecoop, an agricultural cooperative group, both leading clusters in their respective region. Qualitative methodology is used to compare both case studies. Among the findings, this paper is one of the first attempts to explain the territorial institutionalisation of social innovations by way of their exaptation. It presents adaptation and exaptation as distinct but partly sequential processes: the adaptation of social innovations in cooperative clusters paves the way for the subsequent leap via exaptation of these innovations in the whole of the territory.

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“…8, 'Disaster anarchism: hurricane Katrina and the shock of recognition', of the book The Impossible Community by John P Clark (2013). Larger again are such groups as the Anecoop Group (2016), a 'coop of coops' with 69 member cooperatives growing and marketing fruit and vegetables, and the Mondragon Corporation (no date), comprising 261 businesses and cooperatives (Gallego-Bono and Chaves-Avila 2016).…”

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Environment change, economy change and reducing conflict at source

Cottey

2018

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At a time when fossil fuel burning, nationalism, ethnic and religious intolerance, and other retrograde steps are being promoted, the prospects for world peace and environmental systems stability may appear dim. Exactly because of this is it the more important to continue to examine the sources of conflict. A major obstacle to general progress is the currently dominant economic practice and theory, which is here called the economy-as-usual, or economics-as-usual, as appropriate. A special obstacle to constructive change is the language in which economic matters are usually discussed. This language is narrow, conservative, technical and often obscure. The rapid changes in the environment (physical and living) are largely kept in a separate compartment. If, however, the partition is removed, economics-as-usual, with its dependence on growth and its widening inequality, is seen to be unsustainable. Radical economic change, for better or worse, is to be expected. Such change is here called economy change. The change could be for the better if it involved an expansion of the concept of economics itself, along the lines of oikonomia, a modern revival of a classical Greek term for management or household. In such an expanded view, not everything of economic value can be measured. It is argued that economics-as-usual is the source of much strife. Some features are indicated of a less conflictual economy-more just, cooperative and peaceful. These features include a dignified life available to all people as of right, the word 'wealth' being reconnected with weal, well and well-being, and 'work' being understood as including all useful activity.

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Innovation cooperative systems and structural change: An evolutionary analysis of Anecoop and Mondragon cases

Cited by 16 publications

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An Exploratory Study of Cooperative Survival: Strategic Adaptation to External Developments

An Exploratory Study of Cooperative Survival: Strategic Adaptation to External Developments

How to boost clusters and regional change through cooperative social innovation

Environment change, economy change and reducing conflict at source

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